The Readers’ Guide

What’s in Issue 641

Novel

Former Cosmitix Finance Director Stuart Surof meets Lorenzo de’ Medici. The Duke explains the role of supermoney in the supermarket of the superworld. He and an investment advisor bid for Surof’s business: Just sign this contract... But Surof sees what the supermarket is really like. A mutant ape sums up the adventure pithily.Bertrand Cayzac, Floozman in Space

Presto the master magician, down on his luck, keeps an appointment with Mr. Beelzy, who makes him “an offer he can’t refuse”:
Bill Prindle, Mr. Beelzy’s Trick, part 2; part 3.

ShortStories

New contributorIan Anderson takes a police detective to a mysterious house in search of a missing person who is supposedly present but can’t be found:
The Home of Gifts, part 1; conclusion.

An amateur photographer explores an abandoned hotel dating from the Cold War era. The photos he takes on floor 7½ show that it really is a “haunted house”:
Ásgrímur Hartmannsson, Scheduled for Demolition.

New contributorMelissa R. Mendelson sends an ambitous young reporter to the scene of a drug overdose. It’s in the Arole Woods, where very bad things happen and have happened:
Summer Over the Death of My Youth.

Drama

When two young suburban fathers go trick-or-treating on a lark at Halloween, they find the tables turned:
Charles C. Cole, Happee Halloween.